Programa 3 Radio Republik Indonesia ('Programme 3 of the Radio Republik Indonesia'), known as RRI Programa 3, Pro 3 RRI, RRI Pro 3, or simply Pro 3, is an Indonesian national radio station owned by the country's public radio broadcaster Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI). It broadcasts news and talk programming, but occasionally Indonesian pop songs and sports matches are aired. The station's slogans are Jaringan Berita Nasional (National News Network) and Terus Mengudara untuk Indonesia (Continuously Airing for Indonesia).
History
Predecessors of the RRI national radio broadcasts, until the late 1990s, are Programa Nasional I and Programa Nasional II; Programa Nasional means "National Programme". Both stations aired "special informational, educational, and entertainment programming".
The launch of Pro 3 was helded on 13th August 2001 in Shangrilla Hotel, Jakarta"RRI" PROGRAMA 3 MANFAATKAN TEKNOLOGI WORLDSPACE, Kompas, 15th August 2001, page 10. On that time, Pro 3 uses the now-defunct WorldSpace technology.
The LPP RRI News Center (Pusat Pemberitaan LPP RRI), a unit in RRI that operates RRI Programa 3, was established on 31 December 2006. At that time, the RRI President Director, Parni Hadi and one of the directors of RRI, Rosarita Niken Widiastuti expected the network to have a separate unit from the more locally oriented RRI Jakarta.
RRI Programa 3 was relaunched as "National News Network" on September 11, 2016, coinciding with RRI's 71st anniversary, even though previously it had been positioned as a news radio station.
See also TVRI (TV channel), Indonesian main public television station operated by TVRI
References
External links , operated by the station RRI Programa 3 on RRI Digital